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The core area of the Carina Nebula, with the bright star Eta Carinae and its Homunculus Nebula overexposed at centre, and the darker region of the Keyhole Nebula to the right of Eta. The star cluster at upper right is Trumpler 14. The grouping around Eta Carinae itself is Trumpler 16.
This is an L-RGB stack of 2 to 4 exposures from 60s to 150s for each channel, taken with the T33 RCOS reflector telescope at the Siding Spring iTelescope installation on May 7, 2019 under robotic control. T33 is a 320mm aperture (12.5-inch) f/9 Ritchey-Chretien Cassegrain with an Apogee CCD camera) with 4096 x 4096 pixels) and on a Paramount mount. My script called for more sub-frames to be shot but the session truncated, and indeed the last frames had trailed stars, I suspect because of the scope reaching its limit of tracking across the meridian without flipping, as this target was due south during my session.
Images registered and stacked in PixInsight (using Median and Winsorized Sigma stack mode) to create separate masters for each channel, but merged to an LRGB image using Photoshop. Median filter applied to the RGB layer to eliminate the hot pixels remaining despite the on-site image calibration.
SSRO- RCOS 16", FLI PL16803, PlaneWave Ascension 200HR, ACP, MaxIm DL, FocusMax, PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop CC
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1786 HJ24RCO at Lansdowne, Bournemouth working on route X3 towards Salisbury.
Lots of new gear on the m1/m2 since my last visit which had photographed most early in the morning at Lansdowne, Bournemouth. Another batch for the X3 just entered service, seen here with 1786 HJ24RCO working the 10:50 towards Salisbury.
An RCO-equipped SD40-2 is assigned to a bowl job at BNSF's Argentine Yard, shoving down the South Trim Lead with a train they've doubled up for departure later.
To the right, the 111 Job, BNSF train Y-KCK1111-12T, gets a set of BNSF, KCS and CP units ready to bring out of the Goddard Stub while BNSF train H-TULKCK1-11A sits tied down at Track 4021, having finished a trip from Tulsa, OK. 10/12/25.
With only 5 tracks in the small Springdale yard and with all of them being used, it made things a little interesting on this day. Here the Springdale switcher pulls a cut of cars out of the way of the RCO sand job and will shove down the main (center track) to let the C424 pass after it cut off it's empty sand cars. Once the RCO is in the clear the Springdale job will sort out it's cars to take east down the short spur in town, which will allow the Rogers turn, in the far distance, to roll down the main and head for the shops to tie up for the day. Even though it's not a mainline train with 4 or more Alco's, I don't think this photo could have gotten any more A&M than 3 jobs all being Alco powered.
Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn 82 (aka 187 010) "Westfalen" at Dedensen/Gümmer with freight 52480 (Sachsendorf -Rheine) with railco - BELog-Rail CZ-RCO Faccns wagons with gravel, on November 24, 2021, 15:05.
CSX's first Genset to be purchased and that is assigned to the Detroit area shoves a cut of cars around in Rougemere Yard.
Helix Nebula Bi Colour Narrow Band
Instrument Used: RCOS 10" / CCD STL-11000M / Mount AP-900 / Baader Filters Ha and OIII
Bi-Colour Ha OIII OIII
Imaged 15 Km from Melbourne CBD. Strong Light Pollution / Seeing 7.5/10
Two separate sets of former Santa Fe SD40-2's, all equipped with RCO gear, work a pair of remote hump jobs at BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, KS. The job on the left continues shoving down Hump Lead 2 and over the crest while the job on the right sneaks past on Hump Lead 1 with the next cut to be humped. 11/5/23.
This is a small central area of the heart nebula.
Emission nebula IC 1805.
These striking shapes are created by the hot young stars from the young central cluster.
Imaged from Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5" Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9, 3240 mm focal length.
Transparency and seeing Very good.
False color SHO image using AIPSHO.
November 2016. 8 hours H Alpha, 7.3 hours OIII, 11.5 hours S.
30 minute and 20 minute sub exposures. Oxygen mapped mostly to blue
27 hours total exposure.
Processed in Pixinsight, and Lightroom.
SBIG 16803 CCD,AO-X
I want to know who thought these should be on yard jobs... and equipped with RCO... modern railroading I guess. Here's a RCO bonnet at Northtown shuffling stuff around. 5/19/24
Volvo B7TL ALX400
With time running out for these ex Oldham B7TLs, 30959 is one of just 4 left in the fleet, sporting temporary branding for the new 'Coastal Reds' brand.
An RCO-equipped SD40-2 on a bowl trim job at BNSF's Argentine Yard shoves through CP 35 on Main Track 3 of the BNSF Emporia Sub. Right now this job is in the process of building tonight's transfer to the NS. 9/22/19.
A pair of BNSF Dash 9's hang out in front of the shops at Mid-America Car in Kansas City, MO. On the left is BNSF No. 4388, showing off it's fresh, new coat of paint that was applied here at the paint booth. On the right is BNSF No. 650, which although still wears its factory applied Santa Fe Warbonnet paint scheme, it's still very worn and faded like the rest among the 600 series. It, however, isn't here for paint, but rather RCO installation. 5/27/24.
Norfolk Southern high hood #1627 works west end Crewe yard with a AC44C6M Mu'd two. Nice little field shot with the signals.
EMD GP15-1 UPY 604 leads a cut of cars out of the industrial area and street trackage down the middle of State Line Road in Kansas City KS/MO. The locomotive and the cars behind are literally sitting in two states.
I've been wanting to shoot this job for a while and just got lucky today after an appointment downtown.
During a trip down to Louisiana back in 2007 we encountered a "white ghost" Snoot Nose SD40-2 leading KCS Train M-SHAR-12, making its pick up and set out at the KCS Yard in Jackson on a blistering hot June afternoon.
This was the only time I ever got one of these on the point of a train, but today the 682 is running around in yellow paint, its cab windows blanked, equipped with RCO and used on work trains as KCS MW912.
Locomotives: KCS 682, KCS 7002, KCS 6602, KCS 2846
6-21-07
Jackson, MS
"Run 22" eases into 902 Pocket near Kansas Ave on the west end of CPKC's Knoche Yard after pulling from Mid-America Car off the Rice Lead. The KCS GP40-3 is their working power, and the former Santa Fe Dash 9 was just released from Mid-America Car, where RCO euipment was installed.
Both locomotives wear paint schemes revived by Mike Haverty during his tenure on both railroads. The KCS Geep wearing the "Southern Belle" scheme and the Dash 9 wearing Santa Fe's iconic "Warbonnet" paint. The former ATSF unit looks rather long in tooth, but it's still neat to see these two paint schemes together. 5/20/23.
SSRO- RCOS 16", FLI Proline 16803, PlaneWave Ascension 200HR, PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop CC, ACP, MaxIm DL, FocusMax
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A pair of SD40N's assigned to UP train YFX82R-26 set out three cars for the Port of Kansas City-Woodswether Terminal along the Omaha Main portion of the UP KC Metro Sub. Seen on the left is a Mo-Pac Short Bay Window Caboose, which this job will use as a shoving platform back to UP's Quindaro Yard at the Fairfax District. 9/26/21.
Taken from New Mexico Skies Observatory using an SBIG STXL-6303 camera and 51-cm RCOS telescope on a Software Bisque PME 2 Mount
ex-BN SD40 6324 pauses briefly as the RCO walks back to throw a switch. The 6324 is a very late model SD40 purchased new by the Burlington Northern in November 1971.
BNSF 6324
SSRO- RCOS 16", Apogee U9, PlaneWave Ascension 200HR, ACP, MaxIm DL, FocusMax, PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop CC
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An early morning northbound rolls into the east side of Conneaut with quite the unbelievable leader for 2017, SD38AC 868. The 868 has been mostly captive in yard service since the early 2000s, spending a lot of its time at the docks in Conneaut along side fellow RCO equipped sister 862, only making a handful of appearances on road trains. Last week the 868 escaped Greenville while there for its inspection, and was paired up with the 905 on an AK turn. The 868 unfortunately was dropped back off at Conneaut today, but went back in style, leading empty hoppers all the way across the railroad. Unfortunately, thanks to daylight savings, it didn't reach daylight until the very end of its trip.
CSX 6512 GP40-3, 2551 GP38-2, and 2007 GP38-3 are all out together on the yard job Y290-09 on a fabulous spring afternoon in Connellsville. Update: The cherry tree along with the pine trees have unfortunately been removed, for construction of a new upgraded Connellsville Municipal Authority Treatment Facility.
Long exposure of this wonderful famous galaxy.
Central black hole drives intense activity in this spiral galaxy.
Type II Seyfert galaxy.
Magnitude 8.4, distance 24 Mly.
Imaged from Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5” Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.
Transparency and Seeing very good to excellent.
LRGB 15, 5,5,8 hours. H 10.5 h. 43 hours total exposure
2018
Processed in Pixinsight, Lightroom. HDR
SBIG 16803 CCD,AO-X, Paramount ME
One the four SLSF SD38-2s along with an Ex-ATSF SD40-2 make up this remote hump set easing west down the Hump Lead by CP 72 near the west end of BNSF's Argentine Yard.
Built by EMD in June of 1979, this engine started life as SLSF SD38-2 No. 296 before becoming BN No. 6260 after the merger. In 1993, it was rebuilt into an SD38-2P and mated with a TEBC6 slug. It became BNSF No. 6260 after the merger with Santa Fe, and it was renumbered to 1800 in 2008 and then to 1561 the following year.
Early on, it spent most of it's time at Tulsa, OK, but it was relocated to Kansas City in the 1990s. The sign on the hand rails reads "Argentine Bowl Trimmer Locomotive". 5/29/20.
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Once heavy road units, many of these Warbonnet Dash 9's now call classification yards home with their RCO conversions enabling them to be remote controlled while working around the yard. Galesburg is a prime example with several of these Warbonnets now in yard service. Pictured here are BNSF 674, 692 and 686.
RCO-equipped Dash 9s BNSF 641 & 642, one in Bonnet and one in H3, work on doubling their train, known as the Union Job. Former Santa Fe Dash 9s have been recently equipped with Remote Control Operation to work in hump service in several yards, a fate I appreciate a little more than scrap
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A hump job with the usual pair of RCO-equipped SD38-2s is seen here on Track 102 shoving another cut over the hump as it passes next to the General Mills plant. 9/21/14.
"Run 1" is using a KCS SD40-2 as their sole power today as they finish doubling up an outbound train at CPKC's Knoche Yard, seen here shoving down the North Main at Olive St. This unit is RCO-equipped, though this job operates with a conventional three man crew. 10/5/24.
An empty unit coal train on track #2 passes a empty hopper train on track #1 at Global III in the late afternoon sun on the UP Geneva Sub. To the right the local Global III RCO's are working up a Kline special for departure later this night.
A "snoot" nose KCS SD40-2 assigned to "Run 11", the sole RCO job at CPKC's Knoche Yard, is busy drilling the Work Lead as it passes a CP SD60 rebuild tied down on Track 202, the South Ramp, with a loaded CWR train symboled as WCWR097-26.
We almost a month shy of two years since the Canadian Pacific and the Kansas City Southern merged to form the CPKC. Knoche had already been shared by both roads, a joint agency agreement that dates back to the mid-1940's starting with the KCS and the Milwaukee Road. 3/2/25.
The (almost) daily City job that serves American Crystal Sugar and spud row in EGF arrives in the yard, and will soon set out cars for the trackmobile at ACS to spot in the plant across the road to the left.
A empty ethanol train heads west on track #1 while a yard engine has come out onto the main from the east side of G3 to track #2 to move west and re-enter G3 on the west side. Mean time a road engine has just un-coupled from it's train in the yard and is trying to make it's way over to the service area for service while a RCO crew is busy making up a outbound for later in the day.
CSX Q262 crosses the Iona Island South Causeway on the CSX River Subdivision with a former RCO SD40-2 based out of the yard in Walbridge Ohio leading the way.
CSX Q262-25 @ Jones Point, NY
CSX SD40-2 #2428
CSX SD40-3 #4056
A scrap dealer bought these retired CCRCL's at a UP locomotive auction several years ago and he's slowly been in the process of cutting them up next to the KCS Mexico Sub. at the west side of Higginsville.
These units were rebuilt from B23-7, B23-7M, B30-7, and B30-7A model GE's from the MP and SP/SSW for remote control service across the UP System by removing their fuel tanks and cab appliances. Their prime movers were left behind but inoperable as ballast. RCO gear was added and they received the solid Harbor Mist Gray scheme and UPY series numbers.
The RCO controller is linked to the CCRCL, the whatever locomotive consist is MU'd the to the CCRCL can then be operated as a remote control consist. With dozens of big units being equipped with RCO equipment the past few years these units were again put out to pasture, ironically in time for PSR to set in and abolish many RCO jobs as they were turned back into conventional assignments as hump yards were closed in favor of old fashioned flat switching.
Locomotives: UPY 147, UPY 155
6-7-20
Higginsville, MO